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EIB Working Paper 2020/06 - Digital technologies and firm performance
(2020)
As the productivity of the European economy shows signs of slowing down, many hopes are pinned on digital technologies to reverse this trend. This study uses data from the EIBIS 2019 survey to examine whether the adoption ...
Pathways to the Present
(2007-02-28)
'Pathways to the Present' is a thoroughly researched and concisely argued account of economic and environmental change in the postwar "American" Pacific, covering interactions among native Hawaiian, developmental, military, ...
Von Georg Simmel zu Franz Rosenzweig
(2024)
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Shimon An-Ski: Der Khurbn in Polen, Galizien und der Bukowina
(2019)
Der russisch-jüdische Ethnograf und Schriftsteller Shimon An-Ski bereiste während des Ersten Weltkriegs die österreichisch-ungarischen Frontgebiete in Galizien, der Bukowina und Polen. Seine Eindrücke von der Urkatastrophe ...
Prisons in the Late Ottoman Empire
(2014-04-11)
Contrary to the stereotypical images of torture, narcotics and brutal sexual behaviour traditionally associated with Ottoman (or ‘Turkish’) prisons, Kent F. Schull argues that these places were sites of immense reform and ...
The Pariahs of Yesterday
(2012)
Beginning in the 1870s, a great many Bretons began arriving in Paris. Every age has its pariahs, and in 1900, the “pariahs of Paris” were the Bretons, the last distinct group of provincials to come en masse to the capital ...
Mediated Bordering
(2020)
The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites – the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes ...
Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft 55/2011
(2023)
Das »Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft« ist ein literaturwissenschaftliches Periodikum, das vorwiegend Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen Literatur von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart veröffentlicht. Diese Zeitspanne ...
Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft 55/2011
(2023)
Das »Jahrbuch der Deutschen Schillergesellschaft« ist ein literaturwissenschaftliches Periodikum, das vorwiegend Beiträge zur deutschsprachigen Literatur von der Aufklärung bis zur Gegenwart veröffentlicht. Diese Zeitspanne ...
Endangered Languages in the 21st Century
(2023)
Endangered Languages in the 21st Century provides research on endangered languages in the contemporary world, the challenges still to be faced, the work still to be done, and the methods and practices that have come to ...
Die Verwaltung der Prostitution
(2009-02-15)
Prostitution wird häufig als moralisches oder rechtliches Problem diskutiert. Sie ist aber auch eine Herausforderung für die (lokale) Verwaltung: Polizisten bekämpfen Menschenhandel, Gesundheitsämter fürchten um die ...
Der Preußische Staat und die Juden
(2024)
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Finance in Africa
(2023)
The Finance in Africa report emphasises the challenges faced by the African banking sector — including the impact of recent shocks, such as the COVID-19 crisis and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — and the importance of gender ...
When Protest Becomes Crime
(2019)
How does protest become criminalised? Applying an anthropological perspective to political and legal conflicts, Carolijn Terwindt urges us to critically question the underlying interests and logic of prosecuting protesters. ...
Ohnmacht in der Demokratie
(2021)
Die Demokratie ist durch ein nur begrenzt eingelöstes allgemeines Gleichheits- und Partizipationsversprechen gekennzeichnet: Viele Menschen fühlen sich politisch handlungsunfähig und haben den Eindruck, kein Gehör zu finden ...
The Eternal Dissident
(2018)
The Eternal Dissident offers rare insight into one of the most inspiring and thought-provoking Reform rabbis of the twentieth century, Leonard Beerman, who was renowned both for his eloquent and challenging sermons and for ...
The Eternal Dissident
(2018)
The Eternal Dissident offers rare insight into one of the most inspiring and thought-provoking Reform rabbis of the twentieth century, Leonard Beerman, who was renowned both for his eloquent and challenging sermons and for ...
Wag the Dog
(2013)
Wag the Dog became a media event and a cultural icon because it inadvertently short-circuited the distance that is supposed to separate reality and fiction. The examination of the historical and social context in which ...
Legislators, Judges, and Professors
(2016)
As lawyers we are normally interested in various substantive areas of law; and as comparative lawyers we are interested in finding out about the differences and similarities between national legal systems. But from time ...
Legislators, Judges, and Professors
(2016)
As lawyers we are normally interested in various substantive areas of law; and as comparative lawyers we are interested in finding out about the differences and similarities between national legal systems. But from time ...
Technicolored
(2018)
From early sitcoms such as I Love Lucy to contemporary prime-time dramas like Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder, African Americans on television have too often been asked to portray tired stereotypes of blacks as ...
Anthropologie der Theorie
(2019-10-28)
The link between leisure and contemplative activity, as paradigmatically developed in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, has a pre- and long post-history reaching into present day philosophy and theology. Aristotle's melding ...
Muße-Diskurse
(2019-06-28)
The literary discourses of this volume on »Muße«, »dosug«, and »prazdnost'« (leisure) open up new perspectives on the development of Russian culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by means of lexical and semantic ...
Unequal Development and Capitalism
(2024)
Unequal development has been a defining characteristic of capitalism. Throughout history, countries and regions have exhibited differences in labor productivity growth – a key determinant in poverty reduction and development ...
Unequal Development and Capitalism
(2024)
Unequal development has been a defining characteristic of capitalism. Throughout history, countries and regions have exhibited differences in labor productivity growth – a key determinant in poverty reduction and development ...
St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire
(2011)
St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, is a redundant medieval church in the care of English Heritage. As a result of a major program of research carried out between 1978 and 2007, it is now the most intensively studied parish ...
Information structure in Isthmus Zapotec narrative and conversation
(2019-03-30)
This book presents an in-depth description of information structure in Isthmus Zapotec, an Otomanguean language spoken by around 50,000 people in southeastern Oaxaca, Mexico, and represents the first book-length treatment ...
Mediated Bordering
(2020)
The external border of the EU remains under permanent construction. Sabrina Ellebrecht engages with two of its primary building sites – the European Border Surveillance System (Eurosur) and the Refugee Boat. She analyzes ...
St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire
(2011)
St Peter's, Barton-upon-Humber, is a redundant medieval church in the care of English Heritage. As a result of a major program of research carried out between 1978 and 2007, it is now the most intensively studied parish ...
Phidias in Konstantinopel?
(2024)
Im Heiligtum von Olympia befand sich das wohl berühmteste Götterbild der Antike, die von Phidias gefertigte goldelfenbeinerne Kolossalstatue des Zeus. Dieses Werk soll, wie eine byzantinische Quelle behauptet, in der ...
Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in Archaic and Classical Greece
(2012)
This volume presents the contributions to a symposium held on May 9th, 2009 at the Humanities Center at Harvard University that focused on the question of how peace and interstate stability were established and maintained ...
Genius Envy
(2016)
In Genius Envy Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten past: the multiplicity and diversity of nineteenth-century French women’s poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time attributed genius to masculinity and ...
Health, Rights and Dignity
(2010-12-09)
The idea that there is such a thing as a human right to health has become pervasive. It has not only been acknowledged by a variety of international law documents and thus entered the political realm but is also defended ...
A Task for Sisyphus
(2019)
Despite the increasing number of policy measures and initiatives targeting the Roma in Europe, their position has continued to worsen, which requires answers from policymakers, activists and academics. The author sums up ...
Ringen um Versöhnung II
(2019)
Seit der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts wird im politisch-gesellschaftlichen Kontext der eigentlich religiös konnotierte Begriff „Versöhnung“ immer häufiger zur Beschreibung von Konfliktlösungsstrategien benutzt. Doch ...
Ohnmacht in der Demokratie
(2021)
Die Demokratie ist durch ein nur begrenzt eingelöstes allgemeines Gleichheits- und Partizipationsversprechen gekennzeichnet: Viele Menschen fühlen sich politisch handlungsunfähig und haben den Eindruck, kein Gehör zu finden ...
Wag the Dog
(2013)
Wag the Dog became a media event and a cultural icon because it inadvertently short-circuited the distance that is supposed to separate reality and fiction. The examination of the historical and social context in which ...
Marine renewable energies
(2009)
The ocean is a huge reservoir of renewable energy sources, such as wind, currents, tides, waves, marine biomass, thermal energy, osmotic power, and so on. Like other maritime nations in Europe, France enjoys significant ...
Paul's Anthropology in Context
(2023)
George H. van Kooten offers a radical contextualization of Paul's view of man within the Graeco-Roman discourse of his day. On the one hand, important anthropological terminology such as "image of God" and "spirit" derives ...
Marine renewable energies
(2009)
The ocean is a huge reservoir of renewable energy sources, such as wind, currents, tides, waves, marine biomass, thermal energy, osmotic power, and so on. Like other maritime nations in Europe, France enjoys significant ...